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JOHN G. GOTTY, F JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.

Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

PAINT.

1,330,022. Specification of Letters Patent.

No Drawing. Application filed January 10, 1919. Serial No. 270,562.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. GoTrY, a sul ject of Germany, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Paint, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a paint composition particularly serviceable and effective for painting the exterior surface of a ship bottom, so that the same will be protected against the deleterious effects of salt water as well as against the ravages of the barnacle, teredo and the like and he paint has a particularly long life and contains ingredients fatal to crustacean and worm life but harmless to human life. No risk therefore is run by a person in the application of the paint to the exterior of a hull and yet the same is protected against the deleterious effects of the Crustacean and Worms mentioned above.

It is common practice at the present time to apply to the exterior of ship bottoms several coats of so-called copper paint and while this paint is effective in protecting the bottom, the new paint described herein aocomplishes more efiectively all the results of the so-called copper paint and has approximately four times as long life.

The paint is prepared by first distilling a quantity of artemisia absynthium in and also a quantity of aloes-Cape, Curacao,

or Socotrine. These distilled ingredients are.

Next there is dissolved a quantity of ichthyol in wood alcohol and this is then mixed with the ingredients mentioned above. To the whole of this mixture there is then added a quantity of owdered sulfur. This constituency just enume a e comprises that part of the paint effective against the Umstacea and worms.

The body of the paint consists of powdered soft paraffin, ozokerite or J apanm aiid naphtha. These ingredients mixed together in suitable proportions constitute a good paint with which the aforementioned constituency is mixed when the whole is ready for use.

The paint has proved its value both on wooden and steel hulls in salt water, having an exceptionally long life and effectively eradicating the ravages of the barnacle, the teredo and like Crustacean and worms.

The invention having been described what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A paint consisting of a pigment, a filler, a drying oil, and a drier thoroughly mixed together, and a mixture consisting of alcohol and the active principle of worm-wood which are added to the aforesaid mixture.

2. A paint consisting of powdered metallic lead, linseed oil, a drier, paraffin oil, soft paraffin, Japan wax and naphtha which are thoroughly mixed to form a paint, and a composition added to the paint, the said composition comprising alcohol and the active principle of worm-wood.

3. In the production of a paint for ship bottoms, the method which consists in thoroughly mixing together a quantity of powdered metallic lead, linseed oil, a drier, paraffin oil, soft paraffin, Japan wax and naphtha, then distilling a quantity of artemisia absynthium in alcohol, then similarly distilling in alcohol agalge and mixing this with the distilled artemisia, then distilling a quantity of ichthyol in wood alcohol and mixing this with the said distillates, then adding to the above a quantity of sulfur powder, and finally mixing this composition with the first said mixture.

In testimony whereof I affix my si nature.

JOHN G. GO TY. 

